Shoe-buttoning device



J. SZIGETHY. SHOE BUTTONING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 15, I922.

1 ,423,78Q. Patented. July 25, 1922.

JOSEPH SZIGETI-IY, O35 HIMLERVILLE, KENTUCKY.

SHOE-BUTTONING DEVICE.

Application filed April 15, 1922.

To all wiwmz't may concern Be it known that I, Josnrri fiarenrnr, acitizen of Hungary, residing at flimlervllle, in the county of Martinand State of Ken- 1 tucky, have inventedcertain new and usefulImprovements in a Shoe-Buttoning Device, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to button hooks such as are used in buttoningboots and shoes and also gloves, and it has for an ob ect to provide anovel form of button hook which will facilitate the insertion of thebuttons in the button holes.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the follow ing descriptionand accompanying drawings, and to the appended cla1ms 1n wh ch thevarious novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Fig. 1 of the drawings is a perspectlve view illustrating my improvedbutton hook as applied to a shoe to button the latter.

Fig. 2 is a face view of my improved but ton hook alone.

F ig. 3 is an enlarged horizontal sectional view taken on the line 33 ofFig. 2.

Fig. 1 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken on the line 4:4t ofFig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showlng a modification.

Fig. 6 is a detail view indicating the man ner in which the hooks engagethe button, the hooks being shown in horizontal section taken on theline 66 of Fig. 1.

As here shown my improved button hook comprises a U-shaped frame elementor standard consisting of the legs 10 and top piece 11. This frameelement may be of ornamental design as indicated and the legs may beprovided with feet 12 which. engage the shoe.

Extending longitudinally between the legs 11 is a bar 14 which isarranged to have both a longitudinal movement, and a swinging movementin the plane of the frame element upon the top piece 11 thereof as apivot or fulcrum, the bar having a combination sliding and pivotalengagement with the top piece. This engagement is here effected byforming an enlarged aperture 15 in the top piece 11, the wall of thisaperture having a number of socket elements 16, as here shown four,spaced therearound and each containing a ball 17. The bar 1 1, which 1shere of hexagonal cross section, passes between these finecification oi.Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1222.

Serial No. 552,954.

balls, sufficient play being left for the bar to swing.

The bar 1a is held against swinging movement transversely to the frame10, 11 by means of a horizontal rod 20 extending be tween and fixed atits opposite ends to the legs 10 at a distance below the top piece 11,this rod passing freely through a longitudinal slot 21 in the bar 14.The bar 14 is guided in its swinging movement in the plane of the frame10, 11 by a pair of links 22 pivoted at one end as at 28 to one of thelegs 10 of the frame and at their opposite ends as at 2 1 to the bar 14,these links being located a short distance below the rod 20.

The upper end of the bar 14: may be formed with a suitable handleelement 14:, while its lower end has fixed thereon a compound hookmember adapted to engage the button of the shoe or other article to drawit through the button hole. This hook member comprises a pair of prongs25 which are suitably curved to engage under the button and whose backportions diverge slightly away from one another as shown in Fig. i-.

In the use of my improved button hook the hooked members 25 areprojected through the button hole and engaged with the button, the bar14, extending at an oblique angle with respect to the adjacent surfaceof the shoe. The bar is then swung to a vertical position and the frame10, 11 is moved downwardly, engaging the portion of the shoe in whichthe button hole is formed so as to force it downwardly over the buttonwhich is thus projected through the button hole. The hook is thendisengaged from the button.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a modification in which the supporting frame isdispensed with, the hook comprising a bar 30 bifurcated at its lower endinto a pair of hook members 31 whose back portions 31 are slightlyinclined, in the plane of the hook members, to the bar. The manner inwhich either of the hook members 25 or 31 engages the button isindicated in detail in Fig. 6, the button being indicated at 34- and thebutton hole at 35, the hooks engaging over that side of the button whichis, when the button is unfastened, farthest from the button hole anddrawing the button up to the button hole, which latter they act tospread so as to facilitate passing of the button therethrough.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire toprotect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. A button hook comprising ajU-shaped frame, a bar arranged forswinging and sliding movement in said frame, and a compound hook memberon said bar.

2. A button hook comprising a U-shaped frame, a bar slidably andswingably passing through an aperture in said frame and earrying acompound hook member, and a link engaged with said frame and bar andguiding said bar in its swinging movement.

3. A button hook comprising a U-shaped frame, a bar slidably andswingably passing through an aperture in said frame and earrying .acompound hook member, and a link engaged with said frame and bar andguiding said bar in its swinging movement, and a rod carried by saidframe and passing through a longitudinal slot in said bar to preventtransverse swinging movement "of the latter.

1-. A button hook comprising a U-shaped frame consisting of legs and anapertured top piece, a series of balls rotatably seated in the walletthe aperture in the top piece, a bar passing freely through saidaperture between the said balls and being formed with a longitudinalslot, a rod supported by the legs of the frame and passing through saidslot, a pair of links pivotally engaged at opposite ends With said barand one of the legs of .the frame, and a compound hook member on saidbar. a

5. A button hook comprising a U-shaped frame, a bar arranged forswinging and sliding movement in said frame, and a eompound hook memberon said bar, said hook member comprising a pair of separated prongs.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

JOSEPH SZIGETI-IY.

